The UN Environment Programme has confirmed a deeply concerning truth for the entire planet in its new Limiting Overshoot report – going beyond the 1.5°C temperature goal established by the Paris Agreement is now “unavoidable”. In the face of the escalating climate crisis, driven by our burning of fossil fuels and emissions of super pollutant […]
Climate change is too often viewed as something remote, with its impacts felt in other places, by other people less fortunate. The following quote popularised on social media has never felt more applicable – “Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where […]
Ten years ago, on 12 December 2015, 195 governments adopted the Paris Agreement at the 21st UN Climate Change Conference (CoP21). A decade on, it is time for both reflection and renewal.
When it comes to international climate summits, there are few more contentious issues than that of money – who should pay for climate action and how should they do it? As the UN Climate Change Conference (CoP30) unfolds in Brazil, our attention turns once again to Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, the mechanism intended […]
Saturday (22 March) is the 40-year anniversary of the signing of the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer, an achievement which has stood for four decades as an inspiration for multilateral environmental action. The Vienna Convention was established in response to scientific evidence that man-made chemicals, particularly chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), were causing significant […]
Methane, the second most important greenhouse gas (GHG), is responsible for a third of the global warming that has taken place so far. Over a 20 year period, it is 80+ times more effective at warming the atmosphere than carbon dioxide (CO2). Beyond its climate impact, methane emissions also result in air pollution by forming […]